surgical suture material

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• Surgical suture — For other uses, see Suture (disambiguation). Surgical suture on needle holder. Packaging shown above. Surgical suture is a medical device used to hold body tissues together after an injury or surgery. It generally consists of a needle with an… …   Wikipedia

• nonabsorbable surgical suture — [USP] a strand of material resistant to the action of living mammalian tissue, available in various diameters and tensile strengths. There are three types: Class I is composed of monofilament, twisted, or braided silk or synthetic fibers; if… …   Medical dictionary

• Suture — The word suture has several uses in medicine, including: {{}}Cranial suture A type of joint between the bones of the skull where the bones are held tightly together by fibrous tissue. A surgical suture Thread like material used to sew tissue… …   Medical dictionary

• Surgical anastomosis — In surgical jargon, to create an anastomosis is to join together two hollow organs (viscus), usually to restore continuity after resection, or to bypass an unresectable disease process. Historically such procedures were performed with suture… …   Wikipedia

• Barbed suture — Surgical sutures are one of the most commonly used devices for wound closure and tissue approximation. In the US, approximately 50 million open surgical procedures a year are performed requiring the use of sutures. Although effective at wound… …   Wikipedia

• suture — su·ture || suːtʃə(r) n. surgical joining of two edges of a wound or incision; stitch used to close a wound; material used to surgically close a wound; junction of two bones in an immovable joint (Anatomy) v. close a wound or incision using… …   English contemporary dictionary

• catgut — An absorbable surgical suture material made from the collagenous fibers of the submucosa of certain animals (usally from sheep or cows); misnamed c.. [probably from kit, a small violin, through confusion with kit, a small cat] chromic c. c.… …   Medical dictionary

• colposuspension — Suture fixation of the lateral vaginal fornix to Cooper ligament on each side, as a modification and enhancement of the standard Marshall Marchetti Kranz urethrovesical …   Medical dictionary

• needle — 1. A slender, solid, usually sharp pointed instrument used for puncturing tissues, suturing, or passing a ligature around or through a vessel. 2. A hollow n. used for injection, aspiration, biopsy, or to guide introduction of a catheter into a v …   Medical dictionary

• surgery — /serr jeuh ree/, n., pl. surgeries for 3 5. 1. the art, practice, or work of treating diseases, injuries, or deformities by manual or operative procedures. 2. the branch of medicine concerned with such treatment. 3. treatment, as an operation,… …   Universalium

• digestive system disease — Introduction       any of the diseases that affect the human digestive tract. Such disorders may affect the esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine (colon), pancreas, liver, or biliary tract. A prevalent disorder of the digestive… …   Universalium